different between lecher vs libidinist

English

Alternative forms

• leachour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekk?n (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”). More at lick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t??(r)

Noun

lecher (plural lechers)

1. A lecherous person.
   • 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (page 202)

     The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

• lech
• lecherous
• lechery

Translations

Verb

lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)

1. To practice lewdness.

Further reading

• lecher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lecher in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• lecher at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From stem of Latin libidinor (“I indulge”) +? -ist

Noun

libidinist (plural libidinists)

1. (rare) A lecher or oversexed person.
   • 2011, Jeanne McElvaney, Old Maggie’s Spirit Whispers (page 107)

     With one day flowing into another as the short, cold days seemed to hold Paddington Cove in the grip of yearning for spring, Old Maggie thought often of the village's libidinist. Jem's lewd ways had gone unchecked for so many years […]